HMS Strombolo

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Strombolo, or HMS Stromboli, after the volcano Stromboli, in Italy:

• HMS Strombolo was an 8-gun fireship launched in 1691, rebuilt in 1704 and sold in 1713.
• HMS Strombolo was an 8-gun fireship, formerly the civilian Mollineaux. She was purchased in 1739 and sold in 1743.
• HMS Strombolo was an 8-gun fireship, formerly the civilian Owner's Goodwill. She was purchased in 1756 and sold in 1768.
• HMS Strombolo was a fireship, launched in 1746 as the 14-gun sloop HMS Grampus. She was converted to a fireship and renamed Strombolo in 1775 and was hulked in 1780.
• HMS Stromboli was a bomb vessel launched in 1793. Her fate is unknown.^{[Note 1]}
• HMS Strombolo (1797?) was a purchased gunboat based at Gibraltar that the Spanish sank during the Action of 19 January 1799.^{[1][Note 2]}
• HMS Strombolo was an 8-gun bomb vessel, formerly the civilian Leander. She was purchased in 1797 and broken up in 1809.
• HMS Strombolo was a bomb vessel, formerly the 14-gun sloop HMS Autumn, purchased in 1801. She was converted to a bomb vessel and renamed Strombolo in 1811; she was sold in 1815.
• HMS Stromboli was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1839 and sold in 1866.

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References

• Hepper, David J. (1994) British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. (Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot). ISBN 0-948864-30-3
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.